Food Storage Recipe - Fireside Chicken Soup

Fireside chicken soup

Need:

2 tablespoon butter

1 medium carrot, sliced

1 celery stalk, sliced

1/4 cup mushrooms, sliced

2 packages of chicken ramen noodles

4 cups water

1 1/2 cup canned shredded chicken

2 tablespoon flour

(  you can exchange all of vegetables with dehydrated or freeze-dried.)

Saute the veggies in the butter. Add the noodles, seasoning packs, and 3 1/2 cups of the water.  Cook for a few minutes. Add he flour to the remaining 1/2 cup of water and then add to the soup. Serve. Sandwiches are good with this.

Food Storage Recipe - Chocolate Snowdrop Cookies

This is such an easy cookie recipe and great for the holidays coming up. I am already getting ready for all of the holiday cooking coming up. Hoping that family comes to my house this year.

Chocolate Snowdrop Cookies

NEED:

1 box of devil's food cake mix

2 1/4 cup of frozen whipped topping , that has been thawed out.

1 egg

1/2 cup of powdered sugar

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. In a mixing bowl , mix the cake mix, whipped topping, and the egg. Mix it well. Form into 1 inch balls and roll in the powdered sugar. Set the on a lightly greased cookie sheet a couple of inches apart. Bake for 10 - 12 minutes. Cool them on the pan before you place them on a plate.

YUMMY!

DIY Water Filter

To ensure that you have clean water , that is free of sediments, vegetation, etc, you have to have a good water filter. You will still have to boil to kill the germs, bacteria, etc. This is great for if you have a stream close by or some other water supply.

You can make one very easily. You need 2 clay flower pots. You will be setting them one above the other one. In the bottom of the upper pot you want to place a large sponge. A clean new one. Stuff the sponge into the bottom tightly so that no water can get by it.  You will also put one in the bottom of the lower pot. But the bottom pot also has layers of other filtering material , 1 layer of smooth pebbles, coarse sand, and then a top layer of pounded charcoal about 4 inches thick. On top place one more layer of smooth pebbles. This prevents the charcoal from getting all stirred around from the water dripping down from the upper pot.

The upper pot should be the largest and if the lower one is strong it should be able to set on it just fine. You could add two strips of wood as support. Put the two pots on a stool with a hole drilled in the bottom that is lined up with the hole in the bottom pot so that the water can drip down into a clean jug for using the water. The sponge in the upper pot acts to stop the worst of the impurities and should be replaced frequently. Very frequently. The lower pot should be fine to only be replaced about once a year. Only a bit of attention , with changing sponge in top pot once or twice a month and this should last you and with little care.

Guide to Trapping

Guide to Trapping was a free book when this post was written. Great survival book to have in your survival library.

From the description:

Trapping has become somewhat of a lost art, but interest in the sport is as strong as ever thanks to a stable fur market and a growing need to control mammal populations or remove nuisance animals. In Guide to Trapping, Jim Spencer covers strategies for successfully harvesting popular species such as raccoon, muskrat, mink, otter, beaver, coyote, gray fox, red fox, bobcat, skunk, and opossum. His entertaining and informative writing will appeal to trappers of all levels. Spencer discusses trap styles and the basics of establishing and working a trapline, including techniques for fastening and adjusting traps and a species-by-species review of trapping tactics for the country s most pursued furbearers. The field-tested techniques, carefully explained and illustrated, will help trappers make sets that deliver maximum results.

Homeschool Minute - Homemade Water & Landform Tiles

I had seen these water and landform tiles in a catalog and online, but just couldn't bring myself to pay as much as $$40.00 for the set. Like these Sandpaper Land and Water Form Cards. I thought about it for a week, thinking of ways to make some. First, I thought of going to hardware store and getting actual tiles and painting them etc. But, even that would cost too much for us. Thought some more. Was at Dollar Tree and it came to me...get some foam poster board, sandpaper, and poster paint.  Total cost was $5.00!!!!!

Frugal homeschooling!


I first cut the foam board into 10x10 squares getting 6 squares out of each foam board. I had printed some water and landform cards from pinterest, either Montessori Now or another one, and used that as idea of how to cut the sandpaper. Sandpaper being the land. Glued it on the tile, then painted the water with the blue paint. I left room at the bottom for writing what it is, like gulf, island, etc.


Great learning tool that didn't cost an arm and a leg. Little Man loves them. Has been looking, learning, and playing with them all day. Even got his small boats out to push them around in the "water".